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ON TELEVISION (TUESDAY 7/2/19)
BET: Tales (Premiere) at 9pm
COOKING CHANNEL: Man vs. Food (Premiere) at 10pm
PBS: Secrets of the Dead (Premiere) at 8pm
A&E: Kids Behind Bars: Life or Parole (Finale) at 10pm
DISCOVERY: Guardians of the Glades (Finale) at 10pm
HISTORY: The Curse of Civil War Gold (Finale) at 9pm
WGN AMERICA: Pure (Finale) at 10pm
Just-launched season three of HBO’s Divorce will be its last, but series star and EP Sarah Jessica Parker and her company, Pretty Matches, are still in business with the premium cabler. “Sarah Jessica Parker has a unique ability to showcase the complexities of personal relationships with such empathy and humor,” said Amy Gravitt, EVP, HBO Programming. “With Divorce, she took our audiences through the keyhole and into the lives of a modern day couple dealing with the fallout of splitting up. As we end with the 3rd and final season of the show, we look forward to our next endeavor with Sarah Jessica and Pretty Matches.”
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Warner Bros. Television Group signed a multi-faceted new overall deal with Kaley Cuoco (The Big Bang Theory) which includes a new pod deal for her production company, Yes, Norman Productions; an agreement for her to star in and produce the upcoming one-hour series The Flight Attendant for the forthcoming WarnerMedia direct-to-consumer service; and an additional talent holding provision for Cuoco’s future acting services. “I love that Warner Bros. is my home away from home,” said Cuoco. “They’re stuck with me now!”
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Walt Disney Television announced the launch of two initiatives to begin later this year: the Executive Incubator Program and the Studios Intern Program. The new pilot programs are designed to create opportunities for individuals with diverse and varied perspectives including women, people of color, the LGBTQ+ community, military veterans, people with disabilities and others aspiring to hold network executive roles and behind-the-camera positions across the Walt Disney Television studios.
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In related news, Disney Channel has established The Eunetta T. Boone Comedy Writer’s Scholarship, in memory of the writer and producer. The scholarship will provide funds to hire emerging and diverse writers who are pursuing careers in comedy writing for television. Boone passed away in Los Angeles in March 2019.
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NGL Collective, the independent Latinx media and entertainment company co-founded by actor, John Leguizamo, announced its acquisition of Hispanicize Media Group, producers of “Hispanicize,” an annual event featuring Latinx celebrities and influencers, owned and operated digital properties and proprietary social AI technology.
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WarnerMedia has ordered Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai, a 10-episode, half-hour prequel to original 1984 Gremlins movie, produced by Amblin Television in association with Warner Bros. Animation. The series will be written by Tze Chun and executive produced by Darryl Frank (The Americans), Justin Falvey (The Americans) and Sam Register (Teen Titans Go!) with Chun and Brendan Hay (Robot Chicken) serving as co-EPs. Dan Krall (Coraline) will serve as supervising producer.
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Lifetime greenlit NXIVM Cult: A Mother’s Nightmare (wt), centering on the true story of Catherine Oxenberg (Dynasty) and her fight to save her daughter India from a sex cult. Andrea Roth (Rescue Me) takes on the role of Oxenberg while Peter Facinelli (Twilight) stars as Keith Raniere, the secret organization leader.
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Starz picked up a second season of Wrong Man, “A format unique to the true crime genre that is both compelling for viewers and has had real life implications for the wrongfully accused individuals involved in these cases,” said Jeffrey Hirsch, Starz COO. “With a second season, we look forward to deploying our team of experts on three new cases, to continue to explore whether justice was in fact served.” The order came the same week the Supreme Court struck down the conviction of death row inmate Curtis Flowers, whose story was told in season one.
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Netflix ordered a second horror series from Mike Flanagan and Trevor Macy (The Haunting of Hill House), reports Deadline. Midnight Mass follows events on an isolated island after the arrival of a mysterious young priest. Netflix has a multi-year deal with Flanagan, Macy and their Intrepid Pictures.
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OWN’s Black Love is back for season three on Saturday, August 10 at 9p. Docu-series celebrating love stories from the Black community was number one in its time slot among African American W25-54 and W18-49.
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Real estate mavens and moms think big in HGTV’s Montana-set Mountain Mamas, premiering Saturday, August 10 at 11p and 11:30p.
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Custom car-builder Aaron Kaufman (Fast N Loud) takes a spin in a different direction in new Discovery Channel series, Aaron Needs a Job. Kaufman explores new motor-driven industries starting Monday, July 15 at 10p.
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E! unscripted comedy series Dating #NoFilter is back for a second season with back-to-back premiere episodes on Tuesday, August 6 at 11p and 11:30p Series offers a canded take on the modern dating scene for the right-swiping generation.
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VH1 launches new real estate docu-series, Love & Listings, on Wednesday, July 31 at 9p. Eight episodes open the doors to the glamorous and scandalous lives of Southern California’s young, ambitious real estate agents and their celebrity clientele.
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The fourth and final season of AMC’s Preacher premieres Sunday, August 4 at 9p, as God’s endgame for the universe begins to click into place.
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Zoologist and former Steve Irwin apprentice Jack Randall tracks deadly and exotic animals in Nat Geo WILD’s Out There with Jack Randall, making its debut Sunday, July at 10p.
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Food Network is serving up new series next month, starting with the premiere of BBQ Brawl: Flay V. Symon on Thursday, August 1 at 9p, followed by Supermarket Stakeout’s debut Tuesday, August 13 at 10p; Family Restaurant Rivals’ launch on Monday, August 19 at 10p and The Flay List on Thursday, August 22 at 10:30p
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Spotify is shuttering its beta program that lets independent artists upload their music directly. “The best way for us to serve artists and labels is to focus our resources on developing tools in areas where Spotify can uniquely benefit them – like Spotify for Artists (which more than 300,000 creators use to gain new insight into their audience) and our playlist submission tool (which more than 36,000 artists have used to get playlisted for the very first time since it launched a year ago),” said the company. “We have a lot more planned here in the coming months. We’re working with our distribution partners to help make this transition as simple as possible for the artists who uploaded music through the beta.”
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Google is rolling out a location history auto-delete feature that erases data tied to the places users have been, websites they’ve visited and search terms they’ve explored. People will have the option to auto-delete data in three- or 18-month intervals. “You should always be able to manage your data in a way that works best for you – and we’re committed to giving you the best controls to make that happen,” wrote David Monsees and Marlo McGriff, product managers of Google Search and Google Maps respectively, in a blog post that first announced the feature in May.
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Henry Ian Cusick (The Passage) landed a series regular role on season 4 of CBS’s MacGyver.
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The second Democratic candidates’ debate last week, simulcast across NBC, MSNBC and Telemundo, drew the largest audience for a Democratic debate ever, with 18.1 million viewers. CNN’s matchup between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders in October 2015 was the previous record holder.
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Paramount Network’s Yellowstone ranks as the #1 summer series on cable, driven by increases in young viewers and female audiences in Live+3 viewing. Episode 202 premiered June 26 and was the #1 cable telecast of the night with P18-49, P25-54, M18-49, W25-54, and M25-54 in Live+3, recording a series-high 1.87 rating among P18-49, a +66% increase from episode 102.
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Animal Planet’s Dr. Jeff: Rocky Mountain Vet on Saturday, June 22 was seen by more than 1.1 million Total Viewers P2+. Season to date, the series has pushed Animal Planet into ad-supported cable’s Top Five (#5) among Total Viewers on Saturdays in its time period. Directly following at 9p on June 22, a sneak peek lat Hanging With the Hendersons season two also topped 1.1 million Total Viewers P2+.
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The premiere of Fox’s What Just Happened??! drew a soft 809,000 viewers on Sunday, while the season two premiere of CBS’s Instinct delivered a series low of 3.6 million viewers.
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